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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Colligation \Col'li*ga"tion\, noun [L. colligatio.]
1. A binding together. --Sir T. Browne.
2. (Logic) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. ''The colligation of facts.'' --Whewell.
Colligation is not always induction, but induction is always colligation. --J. S. Mill.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
colligation
noun
1: the state of being joined together [syn: {junction}, {conjunction}, {conjugation}]
2: the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
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